
Daniel Conrad
Daily Brief Managing Editor at Courthouse News Service
Editor and Photographer at Freelance
doing journalism @courthousenews; teaching journalism @trinity_u; he & him; tryna figure out ‘quid est dulce et decorum.’
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1 week ago |
courthousenews.com | Daniel Conrad
NEW ORLEANS, La. — The Fifth Circuit partially sided with a pro-life clinic network that challenged the Texas Health and Human Services Commission, which terminated its contract with the network. A disgruntled former employee had sent confidential information to the state commission and was later arrested over the security breach.
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1 week ago |
courthousenews.com | Daniel Conrad
SAN FRANCISCO — The Ninth Circuit upheld the trial court’s finding concerning the ownership of “the Eleanor Mustang,” which is actually a collection of pony cars popularized in the film “Gone in 60 Seconds.” The foundational issue of law is whether the car is a character that can be copyrighted; the appellate district says no, as it does not have “conceptual qualities” nor “consistent traits” and is “not especially distinctive.”
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2 weeks ago |
courthousenews.com | Daniel Conrad
CHICAGO — A federal court in Chicago denied Alibaba’s motion to modify a temporary restraining order in this trademark infringement lawsuit brought by the owner of Miffy, a rabbit character originating in Dutch picture books, against more than 100 Alibaba sellers offer counterfeit or bootleg Miffy merchandise online. The court lifts its requirement on Alibaba, which is not a defendant, to freeze the assets in the sellers’ accounts.
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3 weeks ago |
courthousenews.com | Daniel Conrad
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The Department of Justice and Albuquerque, New Mexico, filed a joint motion in federal court to terminate a federal consent decree that had the federal government overseeing the Albuquerque Police Department for the last decade. The decree was put in place in response to the police force’s high rate of unconstitutional excessive force incidents.
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1 month ago |
courthousenews.com | Daniel Conrad
CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. — Mike Jeffries, the former Abercrombie & Fitch CEO who was indicted for allegedly inducing young men to perform sex acts at his parties ostensibly in exchange for modeling opportunities, has been found incompetent to stand trial. Prosecutors did not challenge the motion to find him incompetent, though Jeffries will be held in custodial hospitalization for up to four months to determine if it’s possible that he might regain capacity in the foreseeable future.
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prayin’ i never put myself on blast in federal court like this guy did read the full ruling and so much more at CNS: https://t.co/gVeLovkT92 https://t.co/GjW8GjpuGO

RT @BrandyLJensen: just unrelentingly bleak https://t.co/VGokzqh6qG

RT @jruss_jruss: Judge in the Diddy trial just ordered one prospective juror to not smoke weed during the trial.